The House of Sleep

_The House of Sleep -_ Jonathan Coe's comic tale of love and obsession

Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real

events; Robert has his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising

from her condition; Terry, the insomniac, spends his wakeful nights fuelling

his obsession with movies; and the increasingly unstable Dr Gregory Dudden

sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which must be eradicated. . .

A group of students sharing a house. They fall in and out of love, they drift

apart. Yet a decade later they are drawn back together by a series of

coincidences involving their obsession with sleep - and each other. . .

Winner of the 1998 Prix Médicis Étranger _, The House of Sleep_ is an

intensely moving and frequently hilarious novel about love, obsession and

sleep.

'Moving, clever, pleasurable, smart...one of the best books of the year'

Malcolm Bradbury, _The Times_

'There are bits that make you laugh out loud and others that make your heart

ache' _Guardian_

'Fiercely clever, witty, wise, hopeful...a compellingly beautiful tale of love

and loss' _The Times Literary Supplement_

Jonathan Coe's novels are filled with biting political satire, moving and

astute observations of life and hilarious set pieces that have made him one of

the most popular writers of his generation. His other titles, _The Accidental

Woman_ , _The Rotters' Club_ (winner of the Everyman Wodehouse prize), _The

Closed Circle_ , _The Dwarves of Death_ , _What a Carve Up!_ (winner of the

1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) and _The Rain Before it Falls_ , are all

available as Penguin paperback.